Sunday, January 25, 2009

Dyingrace - demo

Japan has a long history of spawning awesome bands, in every conceivable (sub-)genre of hardcore. So it usually pays off when you come across a compilation from Japan. I first heard this band, Dyingrace, on a compilation from 1998 called Nothing But A Hardway. Their track, Revive, is the opening track and it is heavy, I mean seriously heavy, the perfect mix between metal and beatdown. So I wrote them a letter and their drummer wrote me back and sent along their demo, which is from either 1997 or 1998. 3 Awesome tracks, including the track from the compilation.

As far as I know the only other release they did, besides compilations, was a full-length CD called 'Only The Determined Path Remains' on S.I.H. Records which I unfortunately don't have, not even MP3's. If anybody can hook me up with a copy, get in touch! I'm also not sure what happened to the band-members, I believe some of them went on to Age Limit 20 and John Holmez, but I'm not sure. Any information is welcome!

Below is a 'video' of 'After All' from the full-length, which is a re-recording of the demo-track.

Just for the sake of it, here are the lyrics for 'Revive', as printed inside the compilation (my copy of the demo didn't come with a lyric sheet), spelling errors and all:

The virus swept to peaple / fear fell upon everythin' / It's suddenly come along / before I know / sufferin' from illness / infection onset / become insane / I'm out of mind / bear down upon the illness / dreadful situation / you don't escape again / you don't escape again / fuckin' terror struck again / revive the fear / insanity was born / from everybodys inside / its growin' bigger day by day / everythin' is overawedeat up the scene eat up the kiz / eat up the fuckin' fakass

Kobe's legendary! It's one of my favorite band ever. I think AGE LIMIT 20 formed in 1996 or 1997. After a few name is changed DYINGRACE. They think that they dispersed in 2001... Guitarist is a passage to New York and becomes a member of EVERYBODY GETS HURT and NJ's HOMICIDAL. He is now playing EVERYDAY DOLLARS and HELL BRIGADE. Other members formed BURDEN OF DESPAIR and CRYPTIC REVELATION in japan.

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Vegan sXe hardcore fanatic. My fave music is '90s metallic hardcore, however I listen to all kinds of hardcore, from '80s DC hardcore to '90s emo to current beatdown and pretty much anything inbetween. And yes, I love 108.